St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-03

frightful, and there is hardly station where
over One-eighth of the grade has been accom-
plished. The men just die off in no time
and are Immediately put under ground. The
rock is of lava formation and doesn't get
hard until it is exposed to the air. If it is
worked before the air gets to il it is easy
seps will-6nish the job. 1believe the Amer
lean government will finally consumate the
undertaking.
Mr.. Mack is an enthusiast about the
use of crude petroleum. He. believes it
can be successfully burned by all man
ufacturers. he introduced it into the
Huntington car works. A vat is used
for the petroleum, and the petroleum
and water are mixed in the proportion
mer to a barrel of the latter.
The mixing is done by means of a
plunger, and supply pipe conveys the
liquid to the boiler, where the natural
gas issues from set of jets. 1t has to
be started by fire made of other fuel,
after that the heat generated by the gas
is self-Sufficient to produce the gas as
required. Mr.. Mack says he can, in this
way make commercial gas at the cost
of or cents per thousand!cubicf feet. 1t
is simply separation of the hydrogen
and oxygen of water, the hydrogen and
petroleum forming the gas, and is ac-
complished by super-heating with
steam. Warren & Morgan, of South st.
Paul, the Edison Electric Light COM
pany, of this city, and the Brush COM
pany, of Minneapolis, are contemplat-
ing its use in their plants. Curling
Bros, the great brewers of London,
Ont, used it for seventeen years with
out letting the secret out. DelanO, of
the Detroit Steel Spring works, caught
on to the secret at last and introduced
it into Detroit. Then the Brush Elec-
tric Light company, of Detroit, took
hold of it.
MANAGER GRASON.
Manager GraSOn of Dennis Ryan'S big
farm up at Kennedy, Minn., said, as he
famed himself in the Ryan rotunda
yesterday afternoon:
We have the greatest difficulty in the world
to get harvest hands. The railroads have
taken up all the men in the country. The
Northern Pacific is pushing through up in
Dakota pretty rapidly so as to catch this
years crop, and it looks as if they would get
there. Work on the Manitoba extension is
progressing very fast. We have 5000 acres
IN wheat and about 2.51o in oats and barley.
We will run fifty-tWO binders this year, and
will probably commence cutting tomorrow.
1t will be pretty sight, Crops are all look
ing well above Crookston all through the val
ley.
A JUDICIAL PAREY.
A party Of distinguished Pennsylvania
ladies and gentlemen had apartments at
the Ryan yesterday, having come i'll
from the Yellowstone Park in their own
special Pullman over the Northern Pa
cific. 1t was composed of Judge and
Mrs. III. Green, of Eastern Pennsyl-
vania. Judge and Mrs. J. G. Bucher, of
Lewisburg, Judge G. A. Mayer,
of Lock Haven. Senator and Mrs.
VaI 1AlI Of a
and Senator S. p. Wolverton, of Sun
bury. Judge Green is a senior justice
of the Pennsylvania supreme court. and
turns the automatic scales at 225 pounds.
Judge Mayer preSideS over the Twenty
fifth district court and Judge Bucher
over the Ninth district. They left Penn
Sylvania on June 20 and have visited
Alaska, stopping one day at Sitka
and viewing the great glaciers.
Eleven days elapsed between
their departure from Portland and
return to Tacoma, and six days they
spent among the geyserS. cataracts and
canyons of the Yellowstone park. The
party were the guests of Maj. POStle-
thwaite at the Minnesota club last even
ing. In the afternoon Judge and Mrs.
Bucker and others of the party were
driven about the city by Rev. DR..
Thompson, and to-day DR.. Thompson
will take Judge Mayer and Senator VOL
verton around. All express themselves
as very favorably impressed with st.
Paul, and surprised at the great devel
Opment of the Twin Cities. Judge
Mayer is of the opinion that Don Cam
eron will carry the presidential vote of
PENNSYLVANIA in the convention of IS.
The party will start for home at 1855
this afternoon, and they expect to ar
rive in Philadelphia on Saturday.